It was taught: Aba Binyamin says, "If only the eye were given authority to see, no creature would be able to stand, on account of the damaging demons.
Abaye said, "They are more numerous than we, and stand over us like earth around a pit."
Rav Huna said, "Every one of us has a thousand [such demons] to their left and a myriad to their right. -Talmud, Berachot 6a
Temptation lurks in every moment at every place. We have both an urge to do evil as well as an urge to be good. Which will rule over us?
The Rabbis of the Talmud understood this and knew that if we name those urges we have better chance of not giving in to our worst impulses.
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